"Daisy, it's me, Justin."
In the living room of an independent apartment, Daisy put her cell phone to her ear, and a familiar voice came from the receiver, "there's an interview with Murphy tonight, do you see?"
"I know." Daisy said with a smile, "I've turned on the TV now, waiting for the interview to start."
After chatting with Justin for a while, Daisy hung up and made herself a cup of coffee. Then she sat on the sofa in front of the TV and changed to Fox News to wait for the TV interview.
As the leader of the IMDB discussion group, Daisy had definite information before. In the interview tonight, Murphy will specially respond to the shooting incident in front of the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood and a series of disturbances caused by it. This is also the main reason why she sits here to watch.
Although she is now a believer in magicians, as a fan of the once crazy Murphy Stanton, she still wants to know her idol's views on this series of events.
Daisy looked at the TV. Before the show started, she picked up her coffee cup and took a sip.
"Murphy has always been the perverted, dark and crazy director, which is directly reflected in his films." Daisy's head is full of ideas about Murphy. "From the beginning of" fruit candy "and" chainsaw ", to the final peak of" dark city ", all proved that!"
I believe he will understand what he has done. Daisy thinks that this is a TV interview. Murphy should not say anything supportive. He is a smart director, but as the same kind of people, Murphy will not say anything against her like those stupid media.
Daisy is very confident in this, because she always thinks that she and Murphy Stanton are exactly the same kind of people. The only difference is that Murphy Stanton creates those theories and puts them into the film, and she is responsible for making these theories into reality!
"What a pity..." Daisy sighed. "If I could work with Murphy, Los Angeles would be in a panic now."
She feels quite sorry. After all, Los Angeles is still in good order and will inevitably be disappointed.
As soon as the time came, the Fox News TV interview began immediately. Murphy and the host appeared in a small hall with exquisite layout and began to express some of his views.
At the beginning, Daisy didn't think much about it, but the further the interview went, the tighter her brow became. What Murphy said and where she stood seemed different from what she thought.
"Mr. Michael Werner, an expert in criminal psychology from the FBI, wrote in the media."
Watching the relaxed Murphy in the TV Festival, Daisy listened to what he said without missing a word. "Throughout a series of major shooting cases in the United States, the murderer can be basically identified as a kind of person, that is, hostile to society and suffering from high delusion."
Who is he talking about? Daisy frowned. Who is hostile to society? Who has high paranoia? Is that me? I just want to make the society the ideal!
Her original keen eyes gradually became flat, and she continued to watch Murphy in the TV program gush, "these people all want to make an impact by killing. The murderer in front of the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood is a typical example, which has nothing to do with any film."
Daisy's eyes widened. How could he be so irresponsible? How can you say that? How can we deny the great idea of creation? Isn't magician born in your script and lens?
How can Murphy say, do that?
And the assailant? Murphy calls himself the assailant? Why did he say that? I just put his ideas and ideas into practice!
It's totally different from what Daisy thought before. Murphy doesn't admit that it has anything to do with him at all, and pushes it all away.
In Daisy's eyes, Murphy's words on the TV are all shirking responsibility.
"Jeffrey Swanson, a professor of violence and mental illness at Brown University, believes that He seems to have found a lot of experts as evidence, "we should not draw a conclusion on the murderer's criminal motive too early. Although the killers in major shooting cases are generally young men with autistic tendencies and often imitate certain movies, the problem is that tens of thousands of people who meet this standard have never done such a thing. "
Daisy's eyes turned cold when she looked at the TV, and her fiery heart, which had been treating Murphy before, was getting colder and colder.
But in the TV, her former idol and most worshipped people never stop, "Steve Albrecht, an expert of American threat assessment professional association, recently expressed his views on these incidents, believing that the murderer may be the loser of a series of incidents, trying to solve the problem with the help of killing. He speculated that the police's efforts to find the murderer's motive may be futile It's useless. It's better to focus more on preventing such criminal cases in advance. "
What is a loser? What is an attempt to solve a problem by killing? Daisy's heart grew colder and colder, and she said to herself, "am I a failure? Am I the one trying to solve the problem by killing? "In the TV, Murphy did not directly say that her behavior had nothing to do with the film "dark city", but those remarks undoubtedly put the blame on her, as if these theories were not created by him.
As for the involvement and relationship between film and violence, it was not clear last year. Whether it was CAA or 20th century fox, the strategies formulated by the two professional public relations teams were surprisingly consistent, which made Murphy firmly deny that his films directly led to these cases.
Murphy is not stupid either. Of course, he will not admit those who are hyped by the media, and he will not agree with the view that the so-called murderer is spawned by movies. This is America. He is a Hollywood director. Movies are just one kind of all commodities, just like knives and guns sold in shopping malls. They can kill people, but they can't be attributed to legal manufacturing And peddlers, right?
Only a fool would admit that his films lead to violent crimes.
At the scene of the program, Murphy continued to say according to the strategy formulated in advance, "North America is a very mature film market. Hollywood has perfect self censorship. The films that can be widely shown in North America have very limited violence scenes." city of darkness "is a PG-13 film. In essence, it's a family movie, and many children go to see it 。”
He said naturally, "if we say that movies are related to violence, and literary works are also violent, we can't associate them with each other. In fact, the core issue of this incident is the issue of gun control in the United States."
This kind of thing not only needs to shirk responsibility, but also needs to find a more suitable person to carry the black pot. In a country like the United States, who else can find a more suitable person to carry the black pot than the federal government and the American system?
At the same time of the program, Murphy's black powder organization and some die-hard fan organizations also post and create topics on the Internet, especially on social platforms such as twitter, Facebook and instagram, which have a large number of users.
"For those of you who have seen the city of darkness, who are not fascinated by the magician's crazy and precise plan? Who dares to say that after watching it, he doesn't have the impulse to detonate a bomb somewhere and then walk out like a magician? But did you do that? "
"No! Because you are rational, you can distinguish between fantasy and reality. "
"But for some people, they have been living in fantasy, or forced to live in fantasy all the time. Maybe the murderer, like the magician, has a shocking psychological scar. Criminal psychology also believes that the occurrence of criminal behavior is closely related to childhood experience, and the influence of the real world on a person's psychology is a crime The root of the action
Murphy doesn't believe that the film can't affect the real society at all, but it's not suitable to say that just think about it.
Sitting in front of the TV, Daisy didn't move. Her eyes were as calm as water, and her heart was as cold as ice.
"Why? Why is that? " She wanted to shout, but could not say a word, "why did he say that? Why on earth? "
The TV program was always on, and Murphy's voice came again. "In fact, there is a saying that describes it very well - people actually know the truth. The world is very simple and cruel. There are no miracles or magic, but some people just can't accept it..."
"Director Stanton, one last question." In the TV, the host asked, "the murderer may be your fan. If he is sitting in front of the TV, what do you want to say to him?"
Daisy was so focused that her ears stood up. She wanted to see what Murphy said!
"I hope he can turn himself in to the police as soon as possible..."
Hearing Murphy's first words on TV, Daisy stood up and her eyes became sharp as a sword.
"I don't know if you can see this program, but what I want to say is, please think about it carefully in any case. It's totally wrong to do so. There are still many good things to pursue in this world. Don't continue on the wrong road..."
"Damn it Daisy picked up the remote and turned off the TV. "Damn it! damn! Damn... "
She said it several times in a row, and her voice was higher and higher than before. Finally, she raised her foot and gave a kick on the sofa, which made her depressed heart feel better.
After a long time, Daisy gradually calmed down, but her eyes were cold and frightening.
"Traitor!" With a ferocious expression, she slowly squeezed out a sentence from her mouth, "Murphy Stanton, you are a traitor!"